Declaration of Sentiments

Let us now turn to the possible solutions to respond to the end of the nation. Immanuel Kant argues for cosmopolitan constitutions with a principle of universal hospitality, that is to say for the right of a stranger no to be treated with hostility when he arrives on someone else’s territory. Kant argues that this arises from the natural right to the earth’s surface. He also argues that this has to be done within the framework of Republics –that is to say states is which the executive and the…

The principles of the U.S. constitution, after the Declaration of Independence, spoke of the unalienable rights of shared by all men. The same rights that deprived nonwhites for over half a century. It took decades after the American Revolution for the nation to confront the paradoxical argument of freedom and liberty. Religious revivals and reform movements served as a rouse for the Anti-slavery/abolitionist rhetoric of the 1800s. Northern states, because of the 36o30’ parallel, grew…

In 1619, the first slaves were brought from Africa to Jamestown. Over the next hundred years the institution of slavery was established and with it an ideology. Several states passed legislation that created the idea that blacks property and inferior to whites (The Records of the Virginia Company of London 234). In 1776, a document was signed that said that all men were created equal but somehow left out African Americans. The seeds of the sectional conflict were laid with the creation of the…

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine both were visionaries in their day, understanding that the world around us was more than just dirt and rock but that there was a divine infinite universe in front of us to explore and all you had to do was look up. While both of these men could be found laying the bricks for the age of enlightenment in the colonies and paving the way for a new country, free of British rule, they were also vastly different in individual temperament. Benjamin Franklin and…

The idea of “liberty” and “freedom” have long been at the core of the American identity and, in many ways, are the pillars upon which the US was founded. However, since the outset of the United States, these ideals have been contradicted by the institution of slavery, which denied the rights of African-Americans to freedom. It was not until the nineteenth century and the civil war that any major developments occurred in regards to the way the notion of liberty was applied to the African-American…

in 1783, the attitudes of many colonists were those of dissatisfaction and disdain for the traditional British government. These would exacerbate future relations with Great Britain, fueling dissent. The earliest component of these anti-British sentiments was the French and Indian War. The war gave the colonists their first feeling of any political unity apart from Britain. Since it was the first war where the British fought alongside the colonists, it outlined many of the cultural differences…

full title of the letter, “A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff on the Extraordinary avowal of his Political Principles contained in the Appendix to his late Sermon by a Republican” (Wordsworth, “Prose” 48). Throughout the letter he defends the sentiments of the rebellion and the drive of the common people to have a say in their government. He writes, “the safety of the people, her supreme law, is her consolation” (Wordsworth, “Prose” 52). The “her” in this line is referring to “true Liberty”…

George Mason was the primary author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights and maintained his Anti-Federalist viewpoints despite being from a primarily Federalist part of Virginia. It is because of George Mason’s comment on September 12, 1787 that the bill of rights became a discussion point. He simple stated he, “wished the plan had been prefaced by a Bill of Rights,” because he thought it would give “great quiet” to the people. He thought it would only take a few hours. Hence, having…

She wrote “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” among many other political pieces, pamphlets and politically fueled plays. She made many, which most considered radical, claims for the rights of women and demanded that women recognize that they her owed these rights by birth in the same way as Mary Wollstonecraft did. “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” reads very much like our own United States constitution and the…

The American Revolution affected multiple groups of people who were living in the country during this period of time. All of these groups had different perspectives on how the American Revolution was going to affect them both during and after the revolution. The three different perspectives I am going to talk about in this essay are Whigs, Tories, and Indians. Each of these groups has a completely different view on how the American Revolution will change their world, depending on which side they…